Veteran Major League Baseball umpire Bill Guthrie was working behind the plate one afternoon and the catcher for the visiting team was repeatedly protesting his calls…
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Several years ago, migratory birds in the U.S. were tagged on the foot by the Department of the Interior with metal strips reading, “Wash. Biol. Surv.” for ‘Washington Biological Survey’. The code was changed, so the story goes, after a farmer from rural Arkansas wrote to the department…
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In November of 1975, 75 convicted felons began digging a secret tunnel underneath a prison wall in Saltillo, Mexico. This tunnel was designed to bring them up on the other side so they could escape and live as free men…
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Two hunters were out looking for game one day when they came across a giant grizzly bear. They immediately dropped their rifles and ran for cover. One climbed a tree while the other hid in a cave…
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In the break room of one particular office building in New York, an anonymous employee posted what was labeled the “Stress Diet.” Here’s what was written…
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In 1920, an examining board for selecting missionaries was considering a young man named Oswald Smith for foreign missionary service. One dream dominated young Oswald’s heart: He wanted to be a missionary…
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The great evangelist D.L. Moody had a keen memory for names and faces. If one of his children was missing from Sunday school, he knew it, and he would do everything possible to find out why…
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During the many months of modeling and molding it took to create her 9-foot, 800-pound Babe Ruth in bronze, artist Susan Luery met countless experts and aficionados…
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There’s a courthouse in Ohio that stands in a very unique location. Raindrops that fall on the north side of the building go into Lake Ontario and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. But those falling on the south side go into the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico…
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In the 1960s, an experiment was conducted where researchers gave this choice to a 4-year-old: “I am leaving for a few minutes to run an errand and you can have a marshmallow while I am gone. But if you don’t eat it, you can have two marshmallows when I return…”
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